OSCE SMM Principal Deputy Chief Monitor Hug: Real people, Ukrainian citizens mostly, are dying and being injured in real streets, apartment blocks and fields for a 4th year, and on the ground little is being done to end it. Ukraine

Hug: Donbas is not only in our heads. It's real with real people suffering day in-day out. Civilian casualties are more than statistics. Last year SMM confirmed death or injury of over 40 children, many killed or maimed for life from shrapnel while playing or going to school

OSCE's Hug: There is a dis-connect between concern and actions as the sides maintain state of readiness and still refuse to withdraw weapons, disengage or de-mine. The latter are the pre-conditions for a sustainable ceasefire and an end to the human tragedy in eastern Ukraine

OSCE SMM's Hug: For people outside of eastern Ukraine, this conflict is a daily news cycle, but for those living there it is a cycle of violence that is part of their daily lives. A taxi driver, for example, was injured by a mortar shell in Makiivka

OSCE SMM Principal Deputy Chief Monitor Hug: Deterioration in security situation in eastern Ukraine last week with almost 6,500 ceasefire violations recorded by the SMM. This is an almost 70% increase on the previous week

Nazarbayev says during his meeting with Trump in Washington that the American president suggested moving Ukraine peace talks from Minsk to another place (Kazakhstan?), @interfaxua reports. Remark came during press conference after UNSC meeting.

US Department of State: Secretary Tillerson will travel to London, Paris, Davos, and Warsaw Jan. 21-27 for bilateral meetings to discuss global issues of mutual concern including Iran, Syria, Libya, Lebanon, DPRK, and Ukraine. In Davos, the Secretary will join @POTUS and the U.S. delegation to @wef.

Russia's envoy to the Contact Group for settlement in Ukraine's southeast Boris Gryzlov said that "Donbas needs to prepare to defend itself" after Ukraine's parliament passed the law on Donbas reintegration